Vyser
A live marketplace for paid 1:1 video advice calls. I built it solo, starting from conversations about how people actually go about finding someone worth asking. It now handles booking, sessions, reviews, earnings, and an AI layer for prep and notes.
What Vyser Is
Status
Live MVP
Audience
Founders, operators, experts
Model
Paid 1:1 advice calls
Discovery
Customer interviews and market research
Research Before Building
I spent the first stretch talking to people instead of writing code. I wanted to know how founders and operators currently find tactical advice, what they pay for it, and where they stop trusting the process. The MVP scope came out of those conversations.
Customer Discovery
Asked founders, operators, and business owners how they currently find tactical advice, and what they had paid for it.
Market Research
Looked at existing expert marketplaces, coaching platforms, and paid advisory calls, and where each one loses people.
Interview Learning
Used what came back to cut the category list, add session context, and decide the AI layer was worth building.
Both Sides Of The Marketplace
Customer Discovery
The roadmap follows what came out of customer conversations, not a feature list I wrote up front.
Expert Discovery
Seekers browse experts by category, specialty, price, rating, and availability before they book.
1:1 Booking Flow
Paid video sessions between seekers and experts, with session context and scheduling handled inside the booking flow.
AI Support Layer
Notes, pre-meeting prep, suggested questions, and a post-meeting summary, so a 30-minute call is still useful a month later.
Marketplace Operations
Expert dashboards for sessions, reviews, availability, and earnings, so the supply side has a reason to stay.
What I Owned
I'm not publishing marketplace numbers here, so this covers the product surface and the work behind it rather than traction.
- The customer discovery and interviews the product direction came from
- Positioning across seekers, experts, and advice categories
- The full-stack marketplace, both the seeker and the expert side
- Mobile-first expert discovery and profile flows
- Booking, session, review, and dashboard surfaces
- The AI layer: notes, prep, suggested questions, and follow-up
See it running
Everything described here is live at vyser.co.